Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-16

track, it struck adwelling house on Joel
Woods farm, destroying it completely, and
fine orchard on the farm. John Ottin'
ger living in the house was standing near
it when the cyclone struck it, and he was
carried several hundred feet iHtO fence
and had his shoulder dislocated. His wife
4 and two children were badly bruised.
The storm continued rapidly down into
the city tearing everything before it.
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IN THE TOWN.
Details of the Damage In Martins
Ferry.
The storm struck the town proper back
of Elm Cottage, the residence of Prof. c. X.
Shreve. No damage was done the resi-
dence, but a half dozen huge elm trees
were bent over TO the ground and several
apple trees uproOted and one lifted bodily
into the air and carried hundred feet.
Immediately alongside of Prof. Shreve's
residence George II. Smiths two story
frame was unrOoied and twisted on
its foundation. In this house there was a
very narrow escape from tragedy. Mrs
Smith had Just taken her child from bed
| in au upper room and started out, when a
half ton of bricks from falling chimney
came rafting down, the mass falling upon
the bed, where the child had lain but a
/ few minutes before. Immediately OPP
posite the Smith house stood the story and 4
half concrete house of Levi w. Bailey. The
entire upper half story down to the floor
was carried away. Furniture and house
hold goods were blown fifty feet of the
lot. Immediately across Walnut street
the two story brick residence of James
Bremen, editor and proprietor of the Ohio
JdIey Nelrs, was literally blown to pieces.
The entire upper story was blown OFF eX-
cept few pieces of wall which were left
standing at the corners. Pictures, chairs
| bedSteads and mattresses were scattered
over the entire lot The yard which had
been closely filled with large trees was
cleared completely, hardly q
bush remaining erect. On line
with the Drennen residence on Tenth street
are two houses belonging to Henry Helling
and occupied by Jas. O'Neale and John
Hukill, the former frame and the latter a
two story Mansard roof brick. The O'Male
| house was unrOofed and the west side
caved in, and the brick unrOOled, and the
chimneys blown down. On the opposite
side of Tenth street, Nj. X. Smylies sta
BILE was blown into the next lot. His house
escaped unhurt. Across on the Mt. Pleasant
road Henry Helling's two story brick resi-
dence was partially unrooted and the mp
per story of his barn carried away. On
| the same lot, two story brick belonging
to Helling and occupied by DIR. w. h. Nc
Lure and Mr.. Stewart, was unrOOfed and
the chimneys blown away. In the west
side of the house, and immense hole, ten
feet across, was blown into the solid brick
work. Across the Mt. Pleasant road,
a two story frame, owned by
]. S. Harrison and occupied by Mr..
Devault, WAS unrooted and pretty badly
damaged. Next to it, another house
owned by the same man, aud occupied by
Mr.. Scott, was uncovered and the CHM
news blown down. The house of Alex
Davidson was partly unrOofed, and the
part taken off being carried two hundred
yards. George AndersOns house, next lot,
a two story frame, had the tin roof peeled
off and the chimneys upset. Back of the
row, on the Mt. Pleasant
road, Just described, two
story house belonging to ID. A. Lewis, and
occupied by James Rogers and John A.
Brown, was literally blown to pieces, only
part of two walls remaining intact. A
number of small houses in the same viCin-
ity were wrecked to greater or less eX-
tent. In the whole of Woods addition
there seems to be not one house uninjured.
Some that are not actually torn to pieces
are strained and warped by The wind so
that considerable repairing will be needed.
| Hiram FTazier's house was unroofed
and the chimneys blown down. John
Ferrelps house had one side blown out and
the Shimneys tumbled down. The house
of Edward Muggee, firm, two story brick,
very substantially built and not over ten
years old, had the entire upper story and
all its contents blown away. The house
of James S. Mitchell was unroffed and
pretty generally demolished. A very
unique accident occurred here which will
be described under its proper head. A new
frame barn belonging to J. 4 Jamison
and located ON Park street, was blown to
pieces, and scattered so that no semblance
of its former appeaTapce remained. A
heavy two horse wagon standing near the
barn was turned into the air, the running
gears catching on pile of gas pipe and
the bed continuing in the air two hundred
feet, and over two fences. Three small
houses on Seventh street had part of their
roofs blown off and the chimneys were
more or less demolished. At the end
of the street, q two story frame
house belonging to NJ. c. Mitchell, and
occupied by l.. Wilhelm and VIM. Davis,
was almost torn TO pieces, the entire upper
story and north wall going by the board
Mrs. Wilhelm was the only one in the
house hurt, although the two families
children and all were at home Mr.. Will
helms shoulder was broken in some man
ner, which she was unable to definitely de-
scribe. Mrs. Robert GraysOn's two-story
frame tenement house, containing three
families, Mrs. E. J. Hanghtan, John Wick
ers aud J. S. Godfrey, was un-
rooted and the cbimneys blown
down. A. q. Campbell's house, occupied
by James Brown and Levi Shipman, was
turned on its foundation, and the side
bulgcd nut The remainder of the houses
on North Sixth staeet were only slightly
damaged. The storm here cut across
Fifth street, blowing down the chimneys
of Sylvester Wetherald's and Rev. Samuel
Boyd's residences. 4 tree in the front OF
James Smiths house vas Iprpoted.
4 large walnut tree stand.
ing at the side OF B. F. Rrady's resi-,
dence, was blown down against the house
MASKING in the cOrnice and part of tht
side Of the house. The chimneys wer,
also blown over. The ehimneys on vii
lam MCMssteF's hauSe On Fifth street
next 10 Brady had the windows blown il
and the chimneys blown down.
The storm here seemed to broaden, and
took in the residence occupied by Mr.. VIM
7 Woodruff, owned by David Park, and thG
house OfDr. A. Z. ong. The ehimneys o.